# YouTube Creator Lead Finder (`om_kh/youtube-creator-lead-finder`) Actor

Find qualified YouTube creators by niche or keyword: subscriber band, median recent views, language, posting cadence and public business contact — every field carries its source URL.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/om\_kh/youtube-creator-lead-finder.md
- **Developed by:** [omar khandji](https://apify.com/om_kh) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Social media, MCP servers
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 0.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.20 / 1,000 qualified creators

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## YouTube Creator Lead Finder — Qualified Creators, Not Just Emails

> **You paste a niche or a channel list. You get creators worth contacting —
> not every channel that happens to exist.**
> Subscriber band, median recent views, posting cadence, and a public
> business contact with its own source URL, every field.

### Why not just scrape emails

Plenty of scrapers return an email for every channel that has one. Most of
those channels are dormant, tiny, or off-topic. This Actor scores each one
first — recent activity, engagement relative to subscriber count, posting
cadence — and only delivers a contact once the channel clears your bar.

### 5 advantages

1. **One bad channel never kills your batch.** A private or deleted channel
   returns an error for that item only; every other channel still delivers.
2. **Never billed on a failed lookup.** Only qualified creators actually
   delivered are charged — a channel we could not verify costs you nothing.
3. **Score with reasons, not a black box.** Every `qualification_score`
   ships with `score_reasons[]` — the exact factors and their weight.
4. **Contact verification level, always disclosed.** `published` (found on
   the page) or `mx_valid` (domain's mail server confirmed). Never guessed.
5. **Hard cost cap you control.** Set `maxTotalChargeUsd` and the run can
   never bill above it.

### Output

```json
{
  "channel_id": "UC1234",
  "channel_url": "https://www.youtube.com/@example",
  "title": "Example Channel",
  "subscriber_band": "micro",
  "median_recent_views": 8400,
  "posting_cadence_days": 5.5,
  "language": "en",
  "business_contact": {
    "email": "hello@example.com",
    "verification_level": "mx_valid",
    "source": "https://example.com"
  },
  "qualification_score": 78,
  "score_reasons": ["median recent views 8,400 (22 pts)", "..."],
  "status": "ok"
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per event, base FREE-tier prices: **$0.004** per qualified creator delivered, **$0.002** per verified business contact.
Paid Store plans pay less on every event — the largest plans reach $0.0011 on the cheapest event; the Pricing tab on this Actor's Store page is
always the authority. **No event is ever charged on an item that returns an `error`** —
a batch of 200 with one bad input bills 199.

### Use it from an AI agent (MCP)

```
https://om-kh--youtube-creator-lead-finder.apify.actor/mcp
```

One tool, `youtube_creator_lead_finder`, same arguments as the Start form.

### Related Actors

- [TikTok Creator Search Scraper](https://apify.com/om_kh/tiktok-creator-search-scraper) — same creator-qualification approach, TikTok instead of YouTube
- [Instagram Profile & Lookalike Scraper](https://apify.com/om_kh/instagram-profile-lookalike-scraper) — cross-platform creator research on Instagram

### Support

Found a bug or have a feature request? Use the **Issues** tab on this
Actor's Apify Store page, or message the author (`om_kh`) directly.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Niches to search for creators in, e.g. 'home coffee roasting'. Discovers channel candidates via public search.

## `channelUrls` (type: `array`):

Channels you already have. Full URL, @handle, or bare handle all work.

## `minSubscribers` (type: `integer`):

Skip channels below this subscriber count.

## `maxSubscribers` (type: `integer`):

Skip channels above this subscriber count.

## `minMedianRecentViews` (type: `integer`):

Skip channels whose recent videos median below this view count. Filtering happens before billing.

## `languages` (type: `array`):

Keep only channels in these languages, e.g. en, fr, es. Applied best-effort against the channel's declared language.

## `activeWithinDays` (type: `integer`):

Exclude channels with no video published in this many days.

## `requireContact` (type: `boolean`):

Off (default): deliver every qualified channel, contact or not -- 'contact-verified' is billed only when one is actually found. On: only deliver channels where a public business contact was found (most real YouTube channels do not publish one -- this used to default to true and silently filtered out nearly every result, see P0-5).

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many qualified creators.

## `monitorEnabled` (type: `boolean`):

On later runs with the same Monitor ID, deliver only creators not seen before.

## `monitorId` (type: `string`):

Groups runs into one monitored target. Leave blank for a one-off run.

## `maxTotalChargeUsd` (type: `number`):

Hard ceiling on what this run can bill you. The run stops delivering paid rows once it is reached.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "productivity apps"
  ],
  "channelUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd"
  ],
  "minMedianRecentViews": 0,
  "activeWithinDays": 90,
  "requireContact": false,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "monitorEnabled": false,
  "maxTotalChargeUsd": 1
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `report` (type: `string`):

A visual summary of delivery, charges, and source issues.

## `results` (type: `string`):

Qualified creators in a sortable table. No JSON knowledge required.

## `csv` (type: `string`):

Results ready for spreadsheets, CRMs, and analytics tools.

## `excel` (type: `string`):

Results as an Excel workbook for non-technical teams.

## `runSummary` (type: `string`):

Machine-readable delivery, billing, and source diagnostics.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "keywords": [
        "productivity apps"
    ],
    "channelUrls": [
        "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("om_kh/youtube-creator-lead-finder").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "keywords": ["productivity apps"],
    "channelUrls": ["https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("om_kh/youtube-creator-lead-finder").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keywords": [
    "productivity apps"
  ],
  "channelUrls": [
    "https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd"
  ]
}' |
apify call om_kh/youtube-creator-lead-finder --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,om_kh/youtube-creator-lead-finder"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/okBFvDLYBkgY78ek4/builds/5eMLwVxLN9pVRz15D/openapi.json